Pg. 9-10. Snow Hill calcareous marl member of Black Creek formaiton. Laminated sands and clays interstratified with layers or lenses of more or less calcareous, greensand and marine clay, some of which contain an abundant marine fauna, as at Snow Hill. Is largely a calcareous deposit. Top member of Black Creek formation. Underlies Peedee formation; overlies unnamed part of Black Creek formation. Occurs in coastal plain of southern North Carolina (Greene, Pitt, and Sampson Counties) and eastern South Carolina. Age is Late Cretaceous. Report includes geologic map, correlation chart, measured sections, fossil lists.
Named from exposures at Snow Hill, Greene Co., NC.

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 2020); supplemental information from GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Reston GNULEX).

Snow Hill calcareous member revised as Snow Hill marl member of Black Creek formation.

Source: GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Reston GNULEX).

Type locality designated for the Snow Hill marl member. At this site it consists of 5-6 ft of drab-black, arenaceous and micaceous clays containing abundant assemblage of megafossils in the uppermost part of the Black Creek formation.

Source: GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Reston GNULEX).

The Snow Hill Marl Member of the Black Creek Formation is here abandoned. Its age range encompasses the whole range of the formation in which it was erected as a constituent part. Beds of the Snow Hill are here assigned to both the Tar Heel (new name) and the Bladen (revised) Formations of the here revised Black Creek Group. Its type locality is in the Tar Heel.

Source: GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Reston GNULEX).